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Arthur Treacher’s in Garfield Heights Reopened by New Owner Who Plans More Locations in Ohio
Douglas Trattner
Arthur Treacher’s reopens in Garfield Heights.
When Ben Vittoria closed his Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips restaurant in Garfield Heights in 2021, it decreased the variety of surviving places of the chain that when had greater than 820 of them to at least one — the Cuyahoga Falls fish-and-chip store, which he additionally owns.
After shutting down the Garfield Heights retailer, Vittoria put the actual property available on the market. He shortly discovered a purchaser in George Simon, however neither occasion on the time envisioned that it will ever be introduced again to life as an Arthur Treacher’s.
“I purchased the property with no strings hooked up,” says Simon. “I used to be taking a look at it simply as an actual property play.”
Simon says that Vittoria invited him all the way down to the Cuyahoga Falls location with the intention to wrap up the acquisition settlement over a meal.
“Ben says come down and see me at Arthur Treacher’s and I’ll purchase you a fish,” Simon explains. “I went down and individuals are taking footage of the within, the surface. It was like a zoo there – all whereas I’m sitting with the man.”
Solely then, provides Simon, did the pair start discussing the potential for reopening the property as an Arthur Treacher’s. For his half, Vittoria says that he was assured that Simon would honor the model.
“After I offered the actual property, I used to be hesitant to relinquish something to do with Treacher’s, however the gentleman appeared to have the wherewithal to do a superb job,” says Vittoria. “He satisfied me that he would rehab the property – the within and the outside – in a approach that might do justice to Arthur Treacher’s.”
Simon, with Vittoria’s blessing, opened the Garfield Heights Arthur Treacher’s (12585 Rockside Rd.) final week, bringing the full variety of freestanding places as much as two. Like the placement in Cuyahoga Falls, the Garfield Heights retailer serves the identical time-honored recipes and merchandise that we’ve come to know and love from the long-lasting model, which began in Columbus in 1969.
These freestanding Ohio shops are distinguishable from the co-branded Nathan’s Well-known/Arthur Treacher’s places elsewhere that supply a restricted menu of things bought from totally different suppliers, Vittoria explains.
Simon says that they have been so busy initially that the store centered solely on fish and chips, hen and chips, and hush puppies, however clients can count on to see the complete lineup of battered shrimp, popcorn shrimp and clam strips quickly.
The shop is now open seven days every week. Simon says that the drive-thru shall be resurrected within the close to future. What’s extra, the proprietor has bold plans to increase the model all through Ohio.
“Anyone over 40 years previous is aware of the title – it’s an establishment,” notes Simon. “There is no such thing as a studying curve right here.”
Douglas Trattner
A tasty meal at Arthur Treacher’s
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